Citizens Union singles out New York legislators in annual report
The Citizens' Union Legislation Committee released its annual verdict on New York City lawmakers. It lauds a few as useful or promising while condemning many others for poor records and potential threats to good government. Louis A. Cuviilier is labeled a bad-boy ticket for introducing a flood of bills with little impact. The full report will be pamphlet printed before the next election.
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Citizens’ Union
George B. Agnew
Josiah T. Wewcomb
Eugene M. Travis
Alexander Brough
George M. S. Schulz
Robert F. Wagner
Howard N. Bayne
William J. A. Caffrey
Alvah A. Burlingame
Stephen J. Stilwell
New York
McCarren
Grady
Cullen, McManus
C. D. Sullivan
T. D. Sullivan
Wley and Harte
Alt
Cronin
Gledhill
Kissel
William M. Bennett
George A. Green
Kings
Warren I. Lee
William W. Colne
Robert S. Conklin
Conrad Ga
Owen W. Bohan
James A. Francis
Twenty-third
James J. Hoey
Lindon Bates, Jr
Twenty-ninth
New_York
Henry S. Goodspeed
Thomas J. Lanahan
Richmond
Harold Spielberg
Bennett
Green
Lee
New York City
de Groot
Oley
Murphy
Robinson
Smith
Assemblyman
Ward
Brennan
Clarke
Cuvillier
Donnelly
Fay
Geoghegan
Goldberg
Herrick
Jacob Levy
McCue
Oliver
Lanner
Schmidt
Schutta
Silbermann
Baumann
Brown
Coughlan
Eagleton
Farrar
Gillen
Glueck
Graubard
Hackett
Joseph
Lachman
A. J. Levy
McElligott
McKeon
White Star introduces Holyhead landing for summer service
The White Star Line announced that following Cedric’s successful Sunday experiment, mails and passengers will land at Holyhead North Wales this summer. The change saves at least five hours to London as trains run to Euston in under five hours. Daylight fine weather limits landing to safe conditions. Passengers may continue to Liverpool if desired.
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White Star Line
Cedric
Holyhead
North Wales
Liverpool
London
Euston Station
Anglesea
St Conway Castle
Menai Straits
Wales
Everybody Should Know What Hunyadi Janos Is
A promotional blurb touts Hunyadi Janos Water as a natural laxative that relieves constipation quickly and cheaply. It claims the remedy is pleasant and effective with no bad after effects and warns readers to avoid substitutes from unscrupulous druggists.
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Hunyadi Janos Is
Hunyadi' Janos
Resume Shipbuilding Suit Before New York Supreme Court
Charles H. Kavanaugh reopens suit against former directors of the Trust Company of the Republic of New York now Commonwealth Trust Company to obtain an accounting and recovery of losses from financing the United States Shipbuilding Company. The case lists prominent defendants including Stuyvesant Fish and George J. Gould with ongoing testimony from Dresser and Livingston detailing the financing methods and misapplied funds.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Charles H. Kavanaugh
Trust Company of the Republic of New York
Commonwealth Trust Company
Trust Company
United States Shipbuilding Company
Supreme Court
van Kirk
Perry Belmont
Stuyvesant Fish
Charles E. Marvin
George C. Boldt
George J. Gould
Elbridge B. Snow
Thomas Crimmins
National
Connecticut
Herbert L. Satterlee
Frederick Baldwin
D Cady Herrick
Albany
Edgar T. Brackett
Daniel Leroy Dresser
Trust Company of the Republic
Bealf
Kavanaugh
Waterford
James Duane Livingston
Concord
Mass
New York
William Street
Shipbuilding Company
Borrelly-Daniel Comet Identified By Observers
The Paris Observatory director announced in Paris the discovery of a new comet found by Borrelly at Marseilles and Daniel at Princeton. Observers agree the comet will be named Borrelly Daniel as observations align.
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Paris
Paris Observatory
Academy of Sciences
M. Borreily
Marseilles
Daniel
Princeton
Borrelly-Daniel
Bogota
Colombia
Reyes
Europe
Holguin
London
International Meteorological Committee
Willis Moore
American Weather Bureau
C. F. Talman
Prof. Moore
Smuggler White Expected to Aid Prosecution in New Plot
George C. White, who pleaded guilty with Mrs. Kilgannon, reportedly agreed to reveal smuggling plots before the U S Grand Jury. Indictments loom in Newark for two recent cases involving Western socialites and a Boston woman with a false bottom trunk.
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George C. White
Kilgannon
United States Grand Jury
White
United States
Wise
Boston
New York
Hoboken
Reward for Bennett's Body in Napleds
Caspar S. Crowninshield, the American Consul, reports a $200 reward offered by relatives for the recovery of Holland Bennett of Boston. The young bridegroom disappeared June 10 from the steamship Berlin between Genoa and Naples. His widow, Mrs. Lucetta Bennett, returned with her father and brother-in-law. Bennett had been ill with intestinal trouble and nervous prostration, underwent surgeries, and traveled abroad on the Cretic in May.
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Napleds
Caspar S. Crowninshield
Holland Bennett
Boston
Bennett
Berlin
Genoa
Naples
Lucetta Bennett
Cambridge
Harry Upham
Whitman Bennett
Cretic
Zeeland Hits Hartlepool In Fog Collision
The Zeeland arrives at Southampton with bows stove in after fog collision off Dover Friday night. Hartlepool steamer arrives at Shields badly damaged with starboard bow cut to the waterline, likely the other vessel in Zeeland collision. Repairs take two to three weeks. passengers reassigned to Oceanic and St Paul. cargo to Atlantic Transport Line.
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London
Hartlepool
Shields
Dover
Red Star
Zeeland
Southampton
Oceanic
St. Paul
Atlantic Transport Line
Paymaster flees with eighty thousand rubles in forged orders
The paymaster of the Twenty-sixth East Siberian Rifles escaped from Omsk with 80000 of the regimental funds. He obtained the money using forged orders, plunging the unit into a cash loss.
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East Siberian Rifles
Omsk
Asiatic Russia
Twenty-sixth East Siberian Rifles
Hegeman Perjury Charge Dismissed by Grand Jury
John R. Hegeman president of Metropolitan Life faced three perjury charges and seven forgery indictments. The forgery counts were dismissed and one perjury charge was dropped by the Grand Jury. The case moved to the Court of Appeals which ruled the indictment valid but required resubmission of evidence.
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John R. Hegeman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Superintendent of Insurance
Hegeman
Armstrong Committee
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
de Lancey Nicoll
Jerome
Court of Appeals
Schuetzenbund in Germany Hosts German Anniversary
The 200 National Schuetzenbund members who arrived from New York aboard the Main for Hamburg contests were hosted at Bederkesa to celebrate the town rifle club’s 75th anniversary. Herr von Minden, captain of the New York marksmen, toasted and urged lasting American German unity.
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Bremen
Schuetzenbund
Germany
New York
Hamburg
Bederkesa
Rifle Club
Herr von Minden
America
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